Tom Wingfield

#Famine in #Gaza already occurring, LSHTM experts warn

Francesco Checchi & Marko Kerac say immediate opening of land borders for safe food deliveries vital as acute starvation risks disease, death, & long-term effects of #malnutrition.

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Fantastic news @bnmtnepal.bsky.social and very well done and deserved Bhola! I look forward to celebrating together!

Cover of The Lancet August 2, 2025 issue. Quote on cover reads: "In conflict settings, maternal, newborn, and child health services are among the first to collapse and the last to be restored. In Sudan, this collapse is accelerating, with a devastating long-term toll."

The crisis in Sudan is a health catastrophe that the world cannot afford to ignore. Yet, the global response has been gravely inadequate.

Our latest Editorial calls for sustained global commitment & attention to safeguard health in Sudan.

Read this & more in our new issue: tinyurl.com/m9nutk5w

Rescue Roulette: Dogs from Abroad With some new owners finding their pets exposed to unexpected disease, vets’ bills and heartache when adopting rescue dogs from abroad, is there enough oversight of the sector?

Dr Stephen Woolley was interviewed by the BBC about brucella canis, a rare bacterial infection that mostly affects dogs but can be transmitted to humans.

Catch up on his interview in the documentary 'Rescue Roulette: Dogs from Abroad' here: lstm.ac/40GKhv5 (from 9:00)

Text reads: "Of the 304 million people living with hepatitis B and C, only... 7 million are treated for hepatitis B 12.5 million people for hepatitis C"

#Hepatitis facts you should know:

Hepatitis B
👉 Only 13% of people with hep B had been diagnosed
👉 Just 3% had received treatment at the end of 2022

Hepatitis C
👉 Only 36% had been diagnosed
👉 20% had received curative treatment

We have the tools. Let’s use them 🔗bit.ly/hepatitis2025

New Editorial - World Hepatitis Day 2025: elimination at a critical juncture

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#WorldHepatitisDay #LiverSky #MedSky #IDSky #HepSky

On Monday, WHO’s staff residence in Deir al-Balah, #Gaza, was hit by projectiles and damaged by fire while our personnel and their families were inside.

Male colleagues were detained, stripped to their underwear, handcuffed & blindfolded.

🔊 Hear what happened on the ground. #NotATarget

11,000 more TB patients died after Trump's USAID cuts. That number will rise. | Opinion The potential for thousands of new deaths from TB is not worth the less than 1% in federal savings that came from cutting USAID.

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

With full MMR vaccination rates declining across the UK and reports of cases of measles on the rise, how can doctors recognise and manage measles?

GP Frances Dutton shares advice
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Start4All

🙏 Huge thanks to all teams & participants.
We’re moving closer to diagnostics that reach the #MissedMillions.

See our related article here: tinyurl.com/3knexpcz

🔗 lstmed.ac.uk/start4all
#PoolingStrategy #TBInnovation #Start4All #WHO #HealthEquity

Start4All

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🌐 Study sites were in Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, Malawi, Kenya, Nigeria, & Vietnam. Eight brilliant teams recruited ~15,000 participants, including:
- People living with HIV
- Children
- Nomadic people
- Internally displaced people
- Urban & rural vulnerable communities

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📤 Our sputum pooling for TB data included:
• 🔍 Performance
• 💰 Cost + cost-effectiveness
• 💬 Acceptability insights from people with TB, health workers & national TB programme leads

All this was inspired by our late founder, Prof. Luis Cuevas, and his vision for more efficient TB diagnosis.

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🚨 For the 1st time, a WHO GDG is reviewing pooling sputum for TB diagnosis.

Our #Start4All team just submitted our multicountry data to inform it.

15K participants. 7 countries. One step closer to smarter, faster TB testing. 🧪🌍
#TB #GlobalHealth #Diagnostics

www.lstmed.ac.uk/start4all

Our new study examines social contact patterns in urban, peri-urban, and rural communities and their implications for #TB interventions like household contact tracing, infection prevention, and cluster RCTs. #MedSky #EpiSky #IDsky #TBSky

Read more in @plosglobalpublichealth.org

4 people standing in a semi circle smiling and looking towards the camera. sign in the middle stating 'national tuberculoisis & leprosy control programme (NTBLCP) Federal Ministry of Health'

📊 Supporting data-driven TB response in Nigeria

Vibol Iem from the LIGHT programme worked with NTBLCP & Zankli Research Center to analyze TB data through the lens of poverty, gender & education. Paving the way for equity-focused, gender-responsive action.

#TBResearch #EndTB #HealthEquity #Nigeria

🎤 Key speaker announced: @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social will speak at #WCLH2025 - the world's leading #LungHealth event, 18-21 Nov in Copenhagen.
The bestselling author & global health advocate brings his momentum from the UN to #UnionConf2025
🔗Register now: tinyurl.com/2vytnjek
#TB #JohnGreen

Our work estimating the potential impacts of reductions in international donor funding for #TB is now out in @lancetgh.bsky.social:

bit.ly/3TDl28T

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Despite Kenya’s National Health Insurance Fund #NHIF, 72% weren't enrolled, & 95% relied on coping strategies (borrowing/selling assets). Important implications for new Social Health Insurance Fund #SHIF.
@lancetgh.bsky.social linked comment here
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40580981/
& 📻podcast below

📢in @lancetgh.bsky.social we show heavy catastrophic health expenditure burden in people with chronic respiratory disease symptoms,Meru #Kenya.🔍 Of 296 adults,26% had #CHE (health costs>10% household expenses),CHE more likely in females & if seeking care accompanied or at sub-county/county hosps.

Super stuff @petermacp.bsky.social @lightontb.bsky.social team!

And now, after 7 months of baking, the shiny @lancetgh.bsky.social manuscript has emerged!

Very excited to share this as the culmination of a huge amount of work and fantastic/constructive peer review process.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🧪🩺 #IDsky #icusky

support the Global Fund's life-saving work - Results UK Help support the Gloal Fund's life-saving work.

Supporting the work the Global Fund does is essential to the fight to #EndTB , and all countries play a role! UK residents: email your MP about maintaining the UK's commitment to the Global Fund! And join RESULTS UK's email list for more ways to fight #Tuberculosis
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The people of #Gaza are hungry, exhausted, and facing a growing health crisis. Displacement has stripped them of safety and dignity.

Humanitarian aid must reach them — NOW.

Watch and share.

Title and abstract page of the manuscript

Bar graphs showing prevalence of TB multimorbidity, stratified by key variables

Graphs showing hazard of death among people with TB multimorbidity

🎉New preprint led by Greta Wood🚨

Among ~2000 adults with #TB in 🇿🇦 #multimorbidity was extremely common (86%) and strongly predictive of death at 15 months

Need for screening and management. 🧪🛟🦠

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Very happy to have this in hard copy. Thank you Kritika @tomwingfield.bsky.social and Maxine!

📣🎉NEW PAPER BMC PUBLIC HEALTH! People with TB in Mozambique navigate complex pathways to care (fig.) leading to severe socioeconomic consequences. Well done Dr Pedroso Nhassengo for leading this vital PhD research & look forward to addressing this through policy/practice change! tinyurl.com/hefyf8ju

Tuberculosis: a threat to health security in the European region and the collective actions needed The 2025 European tuberculosis surveillance report underscores the gravity of the situation in the WHO European region.1 Across 53 member states in Europe and Central Asia, more than 225 000 people ha...

“Ultimately, ending #tuberculosis is a political choice. The solutions are within our reach...”

New Comment on tuberculosis in the European region by Dr Hans Kluge, Regional Director at @whoeurope.bsky.social ⤵️

bit.ly/4j73InZ

Dr Rosie Steege awarded prestigious Springboard funding for climate change research Dr Steege’s research will focus on vulnerable young people in Bangladesh who have been displaced by urban informal settlements due to climate disasters, in one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable

Congratulations to Dr Rosie Steege who has been awarded an @acmedsci Springboard grant for research on climate change, sexual and reproductive health in Bangladesh.

The programme supports early-career researchers to develop solutions that improve health & wellbeing.

lstm.ac/4llNrwR

#Springboard25

TB anywhere is TB everywhere! Read our @lstmnews.bsky.social Centre for TB Research comment for #worldtbday in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social on the challenges we are facing with a growing TB burden in England and how we can learn lessons from around the globe to combat this increase. #endtb